Thursday News Roundup: Minneapolis Burns, Trump Expels and Orders, and Biden Passes Gas

Because looting a Target and burning a McDonald’s is always the right answer to social injustice. – What you need to understand about the images coming out of Minneapolis this morning is that they are only partially organic in nature.They are being urged on by social unrest groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both created by the Democrat Party and largely funded by George Soros and his myriad array of front groups in this country.

Antifa/BLM staged a large protest in downtown Minneapolis yesterday in response to the brutal cop killing of a suspected check forger named George Floyd, who was African American. Minneapolis police responded by dispersing the crowd with tear gas:

One local TV station is reporting that Minnesota’s feckless Democrat Governor Tim Walz requested National Guard support in containing these riots late last night.

Minneapolis is reaping the rewards of decades of leftwing Democrat governance right now: A captive, poverty-stricken, largely-minority population, angered by decades of neglect, discrimination and no opportunity; a corrupt, under-manned and poorly-trained police force; and state and local leaders who are useless in a crisis. There is a reason why scenes like this invariably come from big cities that have been run by Democrat machine politics for decades. Minneapolis is Baltimore is Chicago is St. Louis is Detroit is Philly is Portland is Berkeley, is Los Angeles, etc.

History tells us this situation will get much worse before it gets better, an outcome the involvement of Antifa/BLM thugs will ensure. Stay tuned.

Houston has an enforcement strike. – Things have certainly not turned violent in Houston, but Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner is reaping what he has sown as well. Hotair.com has a good write-up about the fact that Turner, who has spent his entire term in office abusing and defaming the city’s police and fire departments, is suddenly having a hard time getting those departments to enforce his mindless and baseless orders restricting business reopenings that go well beyond the orders of Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott. Funny how that works, huh? It’s a good read.

Speaking of reaping what you sow… – President Donald J. Trump will issue an executive order today that will serve to facilitate increased regulation of and lawsuits against big, monopolistic social media firms who have spent the last 20 years censoring conservative speech and thought. From a report at the Wall Street Journal:

As drafted, the White House order would seek to reshape the way that federal regulators view Twitter and other social-media companies—not as hosts of speech but as monopolies that control millions of Americans’ daily experiences on their platforms, according to one of the people. It could also lay groundwork for treating them as public squares where individuals’ First Amendment rights are protected. The draft order is far-reaching in scope, the people said.

The current federal legal protections for social-media companies were adopted by Congress in Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. That law gives online companies broad immunity from liability for their users’ actions, as well as wide latitude to police content on their sites. Critics across the political spectrum have argued that the law now provides the tech giants too much power.

The braindead simpletons in the NeverTrump fake conservative crowd has already reacted with the standard “let the marketplace decide” nonsense, ignoring the fact that our country has anti-trust and restraint of trade laws on the books for very good and valid reasons. The foundations of the principles behind those laws developed during the administration of Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican who recognized the potential evils of monopolistic behavior by the big oil, railroad and steel trusts at the turn of the 20th century.

The true conservative position on this is that the laws that have been on the books and enforced for more than a century should be consistently enforced today. Twitter, Facebook, Google and Youtube are no different than Standard Oil was in 1903.

By signing this executive order today, President Trump is, as usual, taking the true conservative action.

ChinExit continues to rapidly develop. – The New York Times reported last night that the Trump Administration plans to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students currently in the U.S. who are affiliated with ChiCom-run universities in their home country. This is the next step in the Administration’s rapidly-evolving effort to de-link the U.S. and its economy in the wake of China’s lies about the Wuhan Virus and its ongoing attempt to impose brutal control over Hong Kong in violation of international agreements.

The Trump administration plans to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students and researchers in the United States who have direct ties to universities affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army, according to American officials with knowledge of the discussions.

The plan would be the first designed to bar the access of a category of Chinese students, who, over all, form the single largest foreign student population in the United States.

It portends possible further educational restrictions, and the Chinese government could retaliate by imposing its own visa or educational bans on Americans. The two nations have already engaged in rounds of retribution over policies involving trade, technology and media access, and relations are at their worst point in decades.

American officials are discussing ways to punish China for its passage of a new national security law intended to enable crackdowns in Hong Kong, but the plans to cancel student visas were under consideration before the crisis over the law, which was announced last week by Chinese officials. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the visa plans with President Trump on Tuesday in a White House meeting.

This is clearly the right thing for America to do under the current cirumstances, as the ChiCom government becomes increasingly unstable and belligerent. And remember this: If China Joe Biden becomes President, everything this President has done with regards to China will be immediately reversed, and America will revert to its previous subservient posture towards the Giant Red Panda.

Speaking of China Joe… – I kid you not, during a livestream interview with feckless Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf yesterday, the Democrat Party’s Unfrozen Caveman Presumptive Nominee let loose with a big ol’ fart that was picked up by the mikes:

I guess we’ll have to add “Farty Joe” to his long and growing list of nicknames.

“angered by decades of neglect, discrimination and no opportunity”

Disguised as concern, inclusion and mythical government-provided opportunities.

largely funded by George Soros and his myriad array of front groups in this country.

I think if George Soros died tomorrow, half of America's problems would disappear.

“our country has anti-trust and restraint of trade laws on the books for very good and valid reasons. The foundations of the principles behind those laws developed during the administration of Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican”

Point of fact: Teddy was no Conservative. He was the Republican wing of the Progressive political movement and instituted a number of progressive big government moves.

However, on the deeper side of it, the original Capitalist - Adam Smith - was no fan of monopolies; seeing in them how a necessity of the free enterprise system, competition, was stifled or frozen out by monopolies.

“Point of fact: Teddy was no Conservative. He was the Republican wing of the Progressive political movement and instituted a number of progressive big government moves.”

Many see Teddy as a hero and great American President while totally ignoring the fact he was a progressive. An early day RINO of sorts.

However I do not see him as outright traitorous as Romney or McCain.

“I think if George Soros died tomorrow, half of America’s problems would disappear.”

No.
George Soros is just the wicked figurehead at this point. His children are well trained and all in to continue his legacy of evil.

“However I do not see him as outright traitorous as Romney or McCain.”

I do not agree. His ego and stubborn nature led him to create the Progressive Party (Bull Moose) to run against Taft, the Republican nominee. After losing the election to Taft, he ran as the Progressive candidate again, the next time, which threw that election to Wilson, who won with only 41% of the vote. In affect, by splitting the GOP, Roosevelt gave the presidency to Woodrow Wilson. NOT an honorable accomplishment for a Republican.

McCain saw Teddy as his idol, and he had the same ego and bull headed temperament as Teddy.

What is going on with people rioting and not wearing cloth face coverings this an additional public health measure people should take to reduce the spread of COVID-19. CDC still recommends that you stay at least 6 feet away from other people (social distancing), people were looting stores and not keeping 6 feet apart. Looting and stealing everything in a Target store and not wearing a mask is not a public health measure people should be doing. People burning down the Auto Zone store were not using frequent hand cleaning and other everyday preventive actions. The people who burned down the apartment complex did not have a cloth face covering and staying 6 feet apart. This not intended to protect the wearer, but it may prevent the spread of virus from the wearer to others. When burning, rioting, breaking car windows and destroying strip mall wear your mask, keep 6 feet apart be respectful.

History is fascinating.

Let’s assume Teddy never interfered with that election and Taft won. Then of course the rest of history would likely change accordingly. Where I am going with this is the Treaty of Versailles being so extreme it gave Hitler the opportunity to get into power.

Would Taft have insisted that treaty treat Germany a little better?

Fast forward to today. Let’s assume we tangle with Russian and win. With the dems apparently hating Russia with a purple passion, and if a dem were President, would we get the same results, being punishing Russia to the extent of starting another war?

“Let’s assume Teddy never interfered with that election and Taft won. Then of course the rest of history would likely change accordingly. Where I am going with this is the Treaty of Versailles being so extreme it gave Hitler the opportunity to get into power.”.....”Would Taft have insisted that treaty treat Germany a little better?”

Hard to say. Taft tired to speak little about the war most of the time, but in letters and conversations with others his disdain towards Wilson's handling of the situation was mostly that Wilson was not up to the task, was wavering and too indecisive most of the time. That suggests that Taft would have been a more forceful player in supporting Britain and France, and maybe then a bigger player in trying to shape the treaty. But, we will really never know.

I think if George Soros died tomorrow, half of America's problems would disappear.

Soros is the kind that believes that, when people are free to do and say what they believe, that government doesn't stand a chance. Thus, Soros will support the ideals represented under the ideologies of socialism/communism/liberalism/progressivism. The democratic party in the U.S. supports versions of the left, and Soros supports the democratic party with his money and ideas. Soros has been undermining what America stands for, where America defeated what he stands for when Hitler and the Nazis were defeated.

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